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Issues: Whether continuous ice-cream freezer was liable to additional duty under Tariff Item No. 29-A(1) despite the illustrative goods named in the tariff entry, and whether can filler, fruit feeder and ripple machine were classifiable under Heading 84.15(1) along with the freezer as composite machinery.
Issue (i): Whether continuous ice-cream freezer was liable to additional duty under Tariff Item No. 29-A(1) despite the illustrative goods named in the tariff entry.
Analysis: The tariff entry covered refrigerators and other refrigerating appliances ordinarily sold as ready assembled units, and the words "such as" before the listed examples made those examples illustrative only. An illustration cannot curtail or enlarge the plain scope of the main tariff description. Since the freezer was admittedly a refrigerating appliance sold as a ready-assembled unit, its different manufacturing function did not take it outside the tariff item merely because it did not share all the characteristics of the illustrated goods.
Conclusion: The freezer remained classifiable within Tariff Item No. 29-A(1) and was liable to additional duty.
Issue (ii): Whether can filler, fruit feeder and ripple machine were classifiable under Heading 84.15(1) along with the freezer as composite machinery.
Analysis: Classification had to follow the terms of the headings and the relevant section and chapter notes. The three items were shown in the manufacturer's literature as accessories with independent functions, and the freezer could operate without them. They did not form a composite machine performing complementary functions as required by Note 3 to Section XVI, nor was there any basis to treat them as a machine with a single principal function under the chapter notes or interpretation rules. Their assessment on merits under the applicable headings was therefore justified.
Conclusion: The three items were not entitled to classification under Heading 84.15(1).
Final Conclusion: The appeal failed, and the customs classification adopted by the department was upheld.
Ratio Decidendi: Illustrative words such as "such as" in a tariff entry do not restrict the scope of the main description, and separate machines with independent functions cannot be treated as a composite machine unless they are fitted together to perform complementary or principal functions as required by the classification rules and notes.
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